Richard Trevithick
British inventor and mining engineer (1771-1833) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 - 22 April 1833) was a Cornish inventor and engineer. He is best known for making the first working steam locomotive. However, it was designed to be a road vehicle, not a railroad one.
Trevithick was from the heart of a big mining area in Cornwall, U.K. His parents were Richard Trevithick (1735-1797) and Ann Teague (d. 1810.) In 1797, Trevithick married Jane Harvey. He died of pneumonia in 1833.
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